On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 03:41:23PM -0700, Alvaro Retana wrote:
> On September 26, 2018 at 5:46:18 PM, Benjamin Kaduk ([email protected]) wrote:
> 
> Benjamin:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I don’t see your updated ballot in my archive…hmmm..??
> 
> But I wanted to reply to the additional point.  You wrote:
> 
> ===
> I'm not sure I followed correctly some discussion around the rtgdir
> review, specifically the meaning of the indicated MSD value for SR-enabled
> vs. non-SR-enabled networks.  In particular, I still don't really understand
> why it's okay to use the same codepoint (value 1 as assigned here) for
> the max SID depth in SR-enabled networks and for the max label depth
> in non-SR MPLS networks.  Why couldn't they just be separate MSD Type
> codepoints?
> ===
> 
> The answer is relatively simple: SR doesn’t change the MPLS architecture,
> it just looks at the label stack in a different way by calling the labels a
> segment [rfc8402].  IOW, the SID depth is the same as the max label depth
> because a segment is the same as a label (for the purposes of forwarding
> and considering the max segment/label depth).

That helps, thanks.  I was probably getting confused with some other system
that interspersed the "new type of label" (whatever it was) and other
existing labels.  Maybe entropy labels; I think we read that recently...

I may try to suggest some new text that would help clarify this
relationship, but probably not until after the telechat, and there's no
need to wait for it, regardless.

-Benjamin

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